Related to: ἄβᾰτος, ον,
also η, ον [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 3.21] Refs 5th c.BC+]:— untrodden, ἐρημία[[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 2 codices ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; impassable, of mountains, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.25, 7.176, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 719, etc.: ἀβάτου τῆς Ἑλλάδος οὔσης διὰ τὸν πόλεμον 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 3.33 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a river, not fordable, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.6.9; ἅλς 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus [same place]; ὕλη 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 5.4.5] Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἶναι εἰς ἄβατον to be made desolate, [[ LXX.Jer.29.17, +others] LXX]: metaphorically, inaccessible, τὸ πόρσω σοφοῖς ἄ. κἀσόφοις[[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 3.44; οἰκίαι ἄ. τοῖς ἔχουσι μηδὲ ἕν 4th c.BC: Aristopho Comicus 3; ἀ. ποιεῖν τὰς τραπέζας 4th c.BC: Anaxippus Comicus 3; [τὸ ἀγαθὸν] ἐν ἀβάτοις ὑπεριδρυμένον 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “in Platonis Alcibiadem” p.319C. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 of holy places, not to be trodden, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 167, 675; ἕρπει πλοῦτος.. ἐς τἄβατα καὶ πρὸς βέβηλα [prev. author] “fragment” 88.7, compare 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “de Abstinentia - Porphyrii Opuscula” 4.11; ἄ. ἱερόν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Laches” 183b] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀβατώτατος ὁ τόπος (i.e. οἱ τάφοι) [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 924a5] Refs 4th c.BC+]: metaphorically, pure, chaste, ψυχή[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 245a. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2.b as substantive, ἄβατον, τό, adytum, [[ 4th c.BC: Theopompus Historicus 313, “IG” 4.952 (Epidaur.), etc.] Refs 4th c.BC+]; = bidental, Διὸς καταιβάτου ἄ. [[[prev. work]2.1659b. ] Refs]